facial electrotherapy
“As beauty therapistswe are aiming to improve
the overall condition of the skin. This sometimes requires a deeper,more intense treatment,which may require the use of electrical equipment.”
- The Art and Science of Beauty Therapy - Jane Foulston, FaeMajor andMargueriteWynne
In an era where anti-ageing and well-being is a big part of our life, facial treatments are often one of the most popular and sought after treatments by all ages, whether it be to battle wrinkles and signs of ageing, or to treatAcne or a similar condition in younger skin.
As time ticks along, technology makes its advancements, new discoveries are made, and clients become a lot more aware of what’s out there in the big world of beauty, seeking out the best treatment types to achieve results.
Whilst many a facial promises the results most are after, savvy clients will know that there’s a lot more available and are quite often up for trying out new things and a facial with a little more oomph. This is where facial treatments making use of something as simple as electricity – something which we are surrounded by – could be a great investment. Electrotherapy facial treatments could really boost your revenue, attracting those clients on the search for something different.
“ ‘Clients are becoming more knowledgeable and demanding’ is a comment we hear frequently,” say House of Famuir. “So it is ever more important that salons are able offer exceptional treatment results.”
Don’t be afraid of introducing new treatments into the salon and losing ‘hands on’ treatments from your treatment menu. “As beauty therapists we are aiming to improve the overall condition of the skin. This sometimes requires a deeper, more intense treatment, which may require the use of electrical equipment,” say Jane Foulston, FaeMajor andMarguerite Wynne in their book The Art and Science of Beauty Therapy.
“Electrotherapy should be viewed as an extension to the therapist’s skills and not as an entirely separate treatment. The facilities the equipment offers should enhance and complement the therapist’s manual skills. Like any skilled professional it is important that the therapist has a choice of tools at their disposal,” continues House of Famuir.
what is it?
In the book Applied Professional Electro- Cosmetic Therapy,Mari Cruz Domingo Soriano, Silvia Collel Pérez andMarc I. Corral Baqués define electrotherapy as ‘the use of electric current for therapeutic purposes’. In facial electrotherapy, different types of electric currents are used in various formats to achieve the desired results, from tightening the facial muscles to helping with the absorption of specific products.
In order to have a proper understanding of the effects that the different electrotherapy treatments can have on the client, it is vital that the therapist using the equipment is of course thoroughly trained, but also has a little background knowledge in the electricity that they’re using; after all, electricity is definitely very useful, we would be lost without it, but it is also very dangerous if used in the wrong way!
“The world around us (and including us) is made up of a myriad of tiny particles, called atoms,” explain Jane Foulston, Fae Major andMargueriteWynne. “These atoms are of a number of different types, or elements, such as carbon, iron, oxygen or hydrogen. The existence of atoms as one of the smallest building blocks of the physical world was first suggested by the ancient Greek, Democritus, but really became an accepted model when restated by Dalton in the 19th Century.”
They continue: “An understanding of atoms, their structure and behaviour
permits an understanding of many of the physical effects that we use or harness as beauty
therapists.Atoms, combined together through chemical reactions to form molecules, make up the world around us, the cosmetic products we use and even our clients and ourselves.”
Electricity has been around, in some shape or form, for many years, but it’s worth knowing how, and who discovered it could be used to benefit the body.
The first reported man-made generation of electricity was by Thales deMileto in 600 B.C., when he reported that yellow amber, when rubbed, attracted lightweight bodies. It was this that gave rise to the term electricity, as in the Greek word electron, meaning
amber.After this, the same property was found in other materials and Pliny,Aristotle and Plutarch were aware that electric eels, rays and catfish could cause numbness to the skin.
The first recorded mention of electricity being used as a therapy dates as far back as 384-322 B.C., whenAristotle noted the usefulness of electrical discharges of the torpedo fish for curing certain ills. In the second century, Galen also mentioned the use of this fish for treating headaches, migraine and gout.
Several years later, in 1757, electrotherapy really started to develop when Benjamin Franklin reported the positive results he had obtained in administering currents to paralysed limbs and a frozen shoulder. Then, between 1776 and 1810, J,Wihelm Ritter set the foundations for muscle electrostimulation and electrodiagnosis, which was followed by Galvani’s discovery in 1791 that frogs’muscles twitched when touched simultaneously with two different metals. He termed this ‘animal electricity’.
Further experiments were conducted into this theory and in the 1800s a battery was invented. Following this invention, the units of electric current began to be established and
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